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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (356260)	3/28/2010 11:29:39 AM
From: LindyBill	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793866

If we want to get theological about it, [after I just chastised Bruwin for doing so] I think the Byzantine Christians must have looked upon Islam as a Christian Heresy. Muhammad obviously drew from Christian sources for the Koran. He went to war with Byzantium immediately and, under the Turks, Islam finally beat them. The Crusades were a defensive reaction to the Muslim takeover. Islam almost beat all of Christendom. Napoleon's victory in Egypt in the late 18th century marked the start of the complete downfall of Islam as a world power. In essence, Islam has always been at war with the rest of the world, and is today. As Turkey's President said last month, "there is no difference between "Islam" and "Islamists."